Zamora Part 2: Sinking Submarine

Author's Note: This story won't really make a ton of sense on its own so I recommend reading Part 1 before! Enjoy (Sorry this took a long time)

The egg yolk sun poured through the cracks in the blind and awaited entrance into my eyes. The sight still in the clutches of the night's glue, I hesitantly rub the dreams away. Thoughts of the visions in sleep come and go in waves, clinging on to the very last memory of the night but with little success.

Then I realize what’s today.

I jump off my bed as if sleeping had become a dangerous thing. My heart beats fast and there is a buzzing in my brain and together they are as panic. Only now my brain is starting to recall things, the efforts of the night being a marathon of unpredictable problem-solving. I didn’t have dreams this night, I had nightmares. Nightmares of the Lunar Mission. I start recalling my conversation with my parents.

Then it hit me.

Today is the Lunar Festival.

I rush downstairs not even bothering to change clothes. I see my parents sitting in the dining with their heads resting gently in their hands. They both look up at me and I blink.

“Darling, you know what day it is today right?”

“Y-yes” I stutter

“Well it takes off in ten minutes, you better get ready. Remember, keep your sword and all your potions that you have.

“y-yes” I repeat

I sulkily go back upstairs.

it’s time to get into action. My positive self says.

No! Just run away to earth! No one will find you; you’ll be fine. Argues my negative self.

I know exactly which one I should listen to – positive – but what I want is negative.

But I can’t leave my parents. All I have to do is my best – nothing else matters, doesn’t it?

*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧····𝔗𝔢𝔫 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔰 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔯····✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

It had been ten minutes. I was all set. Time to go do my best, I guess.

I walked out of the grand gates of the kingdom, and in all the rush I didn't realize one thing. This was the first time I was leaving the castle! But it didn't really make me feel any better. There was a grand ceremony held by my dad in honor of me. There I saw Lemon. Lemon Hearts. My alicorn. 

The trumpets started erupting from the sides of the runways. My parents were waving frantically. I guess it really was time. Time to go.

I opened my eyes slightly. I wasn’t In my room? Oh yes, I must’ve slept on the journey to this realm. This realm where I was going to have to prove myself. I had imagined it to be all dark and gloomy. Maybe even on the moon? Who knows? But no. It was completely usual. It was actually a LOT like my home back at Zamora. The other weird thing was, I thought I was the only one there but turns out Marissa had done the same thing to others’ realms as what she did to us. Omg, YES. I should’ve thought about that! Now at least one person won’t be able to complete them so she will get to rule at least one realm. Everyone is like a backup here. Zamora is known to be the richest and largest realm, so I think she might aim for me. We also had rooms! Like ACTUAL rooms. I thought I’d be sleeping in some shack, although it is quite small for what I’ve been sleeping in. We also had roommates – three people per room. Again, all of us are princesses or princes, though the more professional way to say it would be, all of us are the future to be queen/king. There were either 3 girls or three boys, so it was gender divided. In my room, I had a girl wearing an oversized sweater with some overalls on top of that, and another girl wearing sweatpants and a tank top. They didn’t seem much like princesses at all. Like that’s the kind of thing I could only dream to wear, but I wasn’t allowed. I was wearing a long coat with a pair of black leggings and an artist cap. I mean I looked good, but it wasn’t that comfortable. Luckily though I had a friend to sneak me some comfortable clothing so I could be free! I quickly changed into a pair of black shorts as well as a crop top. “Hey! My name is Candace! What are your names?” one of the girls asked

“umm, Mines Judith” I replied

“and I’m Blair” the last one answered

“Kay, girls. It’s time we work together and defeat Marissa!”

Blair and I started cracking up and candace looked up like she had no idea

“well, you’re definitely going to be a future queen, maybe even an inspirational speaker.” Blair cried through cracks of laughter.

“come on! Everyone says that”

And with that said, we all started laughing.

It was bright and early in the morning and we had no idea what we had to do, neither did we know where Marissa was. We went outside of our room and out into the open garden. There we met a few other people from other dorm rooms. Soon everyone was out and while after, Marissa came out from the castle.

“So, Listen up everyone. I’m going straight to the point here since all of you know what’s going on – or so I hope. So, you will be working together in you're trios. In your room trios to be exact”

We looked at each other and smiled, good thing we were already quite good friends. “So Now I’m going to be revealing the challenge…”

We all held our breaths tightly. I couldn’t wait as millions of questions ran through my head.

Will it be hard?

Will it be too easy?

Will I be able to do it?

Will I be any help in this trio?

“so, your first task will be, the first trio to find their pearl in the giant lake will get an advantage in the next task. By THEIR pearl, I mean each trio will receive a color, you have to find the pearl that coordinates to your color. But whoever is the last to find it, will be sent back, and as said in the deal I will get to rule it!” the last part she said VERY evilly. I was quite confident with my friends Blair and Candace, but it most certainly depended on the challenge itself!"

We all got ourselves a submarine and packed diving gear for when the pearl comes in our sight. Our color was orange which was a good thing because blue would blend in really well. “Okay. 3. 2. 1. GO!” Marissa shouted

“We left the deck at once and ducked under the sea.

My mind was racing like crazy and I could see everything but… orange!

Orange, orange, orange. The whole submarine was filled with the word ‘orange’. I guess all of us tend to say the thing we’re looking for the right. It had nearly been like one hour and we had no sign of our pearl. We had seen a purple pearl, a pink and even blue one which we were happy we didn't get because it would blend in. We even had some heart attacks when one of us was like "I FOUND IT" and it turned out to be an orange starfish.

That’s when the lights started flickering. One by one, every single light bulb went out. “What’s happening?!” Blair yelled

“I have no idea!” I replied

“Okay, everyone, we need to calm down and think positively! Maybe we can open the doors!” Candace suggested. Even though she was being her usual leader self, this time it wasn’t going to make us laugh.

“Um, Candace, the doors are electrically operated! We are stuck in here!” I panicked

“oh no. Okay. What can we do?” Candace thought. She was looking at everything around us and what we had.

“Candace! What are you doing looking around, can you help us budge the door?” Blair complained

“hang on. I need to think resourcefully.

Our argument continued when a drop of water fell on my cheek.

“wait why is it raining?” I asked

“have you gone mad Judith? We are in a SUBMARINE in the depths of the OCEAN.” Blair corrected

“yeah, but I felt a drop of water on my cheek,” I explained

Blair spotted the tiny drop of water still resting on my cheek. “OH NO! GUYS THE WATER IS LEAKING IN!”

I instantly realized what was happening and yelled at the top of my lungs.

What was going to happen?

Was I going to be alright?

Were WE going to be alright?

“Hang on…” I foreboded “How come only we lost electricity? Wait a second. I swear this is all Marissa’s plan to take over Zamora.”

“Oh yes! Your correct Judith. This is one of her nasty and evil plans.” Candace said.

“Omg, I put you two in all this trouble just because she wants to take over MY kingdom.

“it’s okay. We’re in this together!” Both of them cheered

I gave a silent smiled and hugged them really tightly

Uh, guys what are we going to about the leaking situation?”